RCSI School of Medicine Conferring 2 June 2025 | Prof Tim Spector delivers Honorary Doctorate Speech

On Monday, 2 June 2025, Professor Tim Spector received an Honorary Doctorate Award from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences.

RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences established an Honorary Doctorate Award in 2011 to recognise excellence and to provide an inspiration to students on their graduation day. The awardees will be exceptional people who have made a difference to the world through education, research or service.

Tim Spector is a medically qualified Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the TwinsUK Registry at King’s College London. He is the scientific co-founder of ZOE, the science and nutrition company, which runs the world’s largest in-depth nutrition study, the ZOE PREDICT program. His work focuses on improving health with cutting-edge research on the gut microbiome and personalised nutrition. 
 
Having published more than 900 research articles, he is ranked in the top 100 of the world’s most cited scientists. He is the author of five popular books including "The Diet Myth”, "Spoon Fed", “Food for Life”, a Sunday Times bestseller, and “The ZOE Food for Life Cookbook”. He makes regular appearances on mainstream media.
 
Tim founded the ZOE Health Study, which became the world's biggest community science app, thanks to the hundreds of thousands of citizen scientists who logged their symptoms. Tim was awarded an OBE for this work during the pandemic to help progress our understanding of COVID-19.